Anatomy
ventral roots
ven·tral roots
Definitions related to ventral roots:
  • Formed from motor axons emerging from the gray matter of the spinal cord; each spinal nerve has one.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • (ventral nerve root) The initial segment of a spinal nerve as it emerges from the spinal cord as an anterior motor root, after which it unites with the dorsal sensory root to form the single spinal nerve.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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